The Press., 1887-06-02
IssHGdETery Thursday Evening.
SOME OF THE NEW LAWS.

The statute book of the state will blos- som forth in many new laws, and not many of them are apt to prove pernicious. The labor bills that passed and became laws will make radical changes in some re- spects. The 80 per cent weekly payment law will perhaps excite the most interest. It requires every corporation to pay its employees once week, either in full or 80 per cent. of all wages earned and unpaid up'to the eighth day preceding the day of payment. An interesting question arises as to whether contractors employed by Ecorporations are subject to the law. The operation of the $50 exemption law will al- so be watched with much interest. Wheth- CT it will demolish the credit system for the working classes or not is question. It will certainly decrease the business of lawyers and tend to cash payments in gro cery stores. It ought to be a good run ming mate to the weekly payment law. Another law relative to labor forbids the employment of minors under 16 years of age or women in manufacturing or mer- cantile establishments more than 10 hours a day. The age of consent for girls has been raised to IT years.
 Women will not be allowed to vote at school elections, but they can become members of boards of education or the like. The new Sunday act forbids the running of trains between the hours of 10 a. m. and 3 p. m. on Sundays. The rail road commissioners have been given pow CT to take measures of safety in regard to | the heating and lighting of cars.
 The liquor t1affic has been somewhat restricted by the passage of measures which prohibit the sale of liquor to pau pers, minors even when sent by their par ents, or husbands when their wives forbid it. No liquor can now be sold within 1000 feet of the grounds in which an agri. cultural fair is in progress The bill em- towering the governor to appoint a factory inspector at $1 ,5O0 year has become g law. -s. 4t-, -. ..I .r ...... ....s1L
 Gov. Lounsbury's idea about incorriei. ble criminals has been adopted, and any person who has served three terms in state prison bcan be held for twenty-fi years, unless released on parole. There can be no more justice trials before justices who have office partners interested in the case, and when a justice reaches the age of 70 during the pendency of the suit it may re- move such suit. Insurance companies cannot discriminate against persons of col Tor under the new law, and non-residents of the state cannot be employed as special constables. Ten thousand dollars worth fOf ecclesiastical societies. personal proper ty is exempted in cases where they do no Town more than $20, 900 worth of real es tate. Corp porations seeking Connection charters to do business in other statel 1must pay $100 for every 5000 of stock Blackmailing, has now a penalty of 6, ,00C fines or less attached to it. No one cal wear grand army badges now unless the, are members or are willing to be arrested and pay fine. Infants boarding hotlse
 must now be visited once month by thu selectmen. Telegraph and the telephon, companies must obtain the permission O adjoining property owners before the, stretch their wires over any highway o tPublic property. If they fail to get thei : permission of at least two of the count, commissioners. This law also gives select
 men full control of the manner in whicI ] lines shall be stretched.